The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday proposed an additional $1 million in funding for the State Department special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, according to a report.
The House Subcommittee on State, Foreign Affairs and Related Programs, report He detailed a request for an additional $1 million to be added to the envoy’s 2024 budget. The funding increases the total budget to $2.5 million, well above the $1.7 million requested by the White House in the recent National Strategy to Combat Anti-Semitism. (Related: ‘Opportunity for Change’: Biden’s Anti-Semitic Special Envoy Defends Working with Anti-Israel Groups)
A bipartisan group of lawmakers issued a joint statement on the proposed funding. according to to Jewish insiders.
“The significant increase in funding for the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Fight Anti-Semitism will go a long way toward addressing the specific and growing threat facing both the American Jewish community and Jewish communities around the world. It will help,” the lawmakers said in a statement. . “The dangerous and widespread rise in anti-Semitism requires an unprecedented investment in the Envoy’s office to ensure that he has the manpower and resources necessary to carry out his duties.”
BERLIN, GERMANY – JANUARY 30: U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Fighting Anti-Semitism Deborah Lipstadt speaks at the International Conference on Fighting Anti-Semitism on January 30, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. attend meetings; (Photo credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
However, the committee declined to elaborate on the proposed funding after being approached by the Daily Caller News Foundation for comment.
In June, the department’s special envoy, Deborah Lippstadt, vehemently defended her work with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization with a long history of anti-Semitism, on the U.S. strategy to combat anti-Semitism. criticized. Earlier, the State Department was similarly criticized in March for funding an Israeli organization working to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In March, Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton accused the department and the Biden administration of criticizing Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel.
“Democratic Leaders Called Out” [Netanyahu] “Reactionary,” “racist,” “ethnonationalist,” said Cotton. “They accuse him of committing ‘war crimes’ and leading an ‘apartheid state.’ strong words. ”
The State Department did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
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